San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-02-15

will be restrained In self defense
The very dlgnitied reply of Judge
Gresham to the lawyers at Indianapolis
is worth recording. The affairs of the
Lake Erie and Western railway, for a
long time In the hands of a receiver,
we-e being closed up and the attorneys
appeared with little bill of 100000 as
fees, to whom the judge replied that 1t
was his duty, to protect property en-
trusted by law to the courts, and not to
enrich attorneys at the expense of the
trust" This same Judge Gresham has
been spoken Of very fsvorably as a pos
sible republican candidate for president.
SAN ANTONIO might pattern after sOme
OF her northern cities with profit, In the
matter and manner Of sanitary inspe ,
ton. The state board of Illinois is en-
forcing house TO house inspection
which leaves nothing to be desired. The
report of such inspection includes every
thing that could possibly throw light
upon the condition OF dwellings, with
Kitchens, sewers, easements, sinks,
privies, stables, hydrants, cisterns, ken
nels and ali else. Such a report made
honestly In this, city would form the text
for many sanitary sermons.
THE New York World is democratic
journal; this is a democratic administra-
ton; congress is a democratic body
and yet the New York World, speaking
OF this congress, calls 1t "plundering
congress-" and this administration 1t
calls "blundering administration. ="
Things do not move in the friotionless
manner usual to democratic movements
and measures, when such words are
heard In such quarters. The usual oily
noiselessness Of democratic proceedings
is strangely broken in upon by this
sqeuaking of the machine. The thing
must be actually getting rusty.
The strikes statistican shows 10000
more strikers in the United States dur
ing January 1887 than for the same
month Of 1886. This merely shows that
the playing with squirt does not pre-
vent the spread Of cOnflagration. Legis-
lation has tOyed with this question and
the country imagines IL has been legis-
lated upon. So long as immense corpo-
rations attempt to reduce exceptionally
low wages in the midst of an exception
ally severe winner, and that without
cause, so long will the disasterous and
destructive resort to strikes continue.
Legislation has not touched the root OF
this difficulty, nor Is 1t certain that leg
islatiOn can. So long as men employing
labor can secure more labor than Ia
needed to do their work so long must
the tendency of wages be downward.
There can be little hope OF relief until
the hours Of labor are legally ed
and the surplus labor thus afforded en-
plOyment.
THE almost unprecedented rising of
streams in the northern and middle
states seems general, from Michigan to
Maryland. The great cold of this winter
has caused the ice to form on the rivers
and ponds to a very great thickness.
The warm rains have melted the deep
SHOWS ard, where this rush Of waters has
broken up the ice, gorges have formed
damning up the rivers and causing all
low lands and the streets of towns and
cities adjacent to the river to be over
flowed. The damage all along the
course Of Grand river, in Michigan; along
the Ohio and Indiana streams; In New
York and Pennsylvania, and in Mary
land and Delaware as we'll, Is simply in
calculable. The end has by no means
come, and the entire region between the
lakes aud Delaware is in the most immi-
nent danger. The damage to bridges,
dwellings, river fronts, mills and dams is
Increased every hour and there is little
encouragement in the situation as re-